Karan Soni and Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff star in the award-winning romantic comedy A Nice Indian Boy as a newly engaged gay couple meeting Soni’s conservative Indian parents. It is based on the play by Madhuri Shekar. In an interesting twist, Groff plays a white man adopted by two Indian parents.
J Stevens’ Really Happy Someday will make its UK Premiere as an Official Selection of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival on March 22nd, 2025.
The 39th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival taking place March 19 – 30, 2025, unveiled its full program. BFI Flare is divided into three thematic program strands: Hearts, Bodies and Minds and presents 34 World Premieres (across features and shorts) with 56 features, 1 series and 81 shorts from 41 countries.
The 39th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival (19th – 30th March) has set Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon’s erotic thriller Night Stage as its Closing Night Gala on 29th March and Shatara Michelle Ford’s road trip movie Dreams in Nightmares as a Special Presentation on 23rd March.
Following the world premiere at Sundance Film Festival, Andrew Ahn’s dramedy The Wedding Banquet makes its International Premiere as the Opening Night Gala film of the 39th BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival taking place March 19th – 30th, 2025.
Ahead of the world premiere at Sundance Film Festival, here is the first look – clip for Rains Over Babel (Llueve sobre Babel), the debut feature by writer-director Gala del Sol. Rains Over Babel will premiere in the Next Competition on Sunday, January 26, 2025.
Jane Schoenbrun’s I saw the TV Glow leads the nominations for the 16th Dorian Film Awards, with nine nods, including Film of the Year, LGBTQ Film of the Year, Screenplay of the Year, and LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year. Schoenbrun also received a nomination in the Director of the Year category.
Filmed over 21 years, Sabbath Queen, the award-winning documentary by acclaimed director Sandi Dubowski, follows the journey of gay activist Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie as he navigates evolving perspectives on religion and ritual.
A year after its US premiere at the 2023 Fantastic Fest, Doppelgänger Releasing is releasing You Are Not Me, the Christmas queer thriller from co-directors Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera. The film follows the story of a woman introducing her wife and adopted child for the first time to her conservative family at a Christmas gathering.
Making his second collaboration with screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes after this year’s Challengers, Oscar-nominated director of Call Me by Your Name, Luca Guadagnino returns with Queer, a historical romantic drama based on William S. Burroughs’ 1985 novel of the same name. The film starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey follows an American expat’s romance with a young student.
Duino, the feature directorial debut of co-directors actor-singer Juan Pablo Di Pace (Mamma Mia!) and Andrés Pepe Estrada, editor of the Oscar-nominated Argentine film Argentina, 1985, will have its New York premiere at the 36th edition of NewFest: New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival.
Palme d’Or winning director of ‘Dheepan,’ Jacques Audiard returns with ‘Emilia Pérez’ the critically acclaimed genre-bending musical film following four women in Mexico in a story of crime and self-discovery.